Hey guys, it's me, Ali, as your narrator again! After the taxi dropped us off at the Washington airport, it was night and we were tired, so we sung a lullaby for Colton until he fell asleep so he wouldn't annoy us. The flight from the Washington airport to the
JFK international airport in New York City cost $59.00 per person which made a total of $236.00. When we got on the airplane it was 10:00 p.m and the ride is only 1 hour and 36 minutes long so that's pretty good. But since it was nighttime, Joseph, Lawrence, and I fell asleep in the first 30 minutes but since Colton was already asleep since the airport, he woke up 15 minutes after Joseph, Lawrence, and I fell asleep. He was so scared and didn't know what was going on so he thought he was dreaming so he pinched himself and screamed (while everyone else was asleep) and got sent to plane jail again! But before he went to plane jail I asked him why he kept going to plane jail and he said that he was scared of heights, but if he was why did he try to jump out on our flight from Dallas to Orlando? Anyway, on 11:25 p.m, we were starting to land, Colton threw up in plane jail because he got plane sick. At 11:33 p.m we finally landed but we had to wait 3 more minutes for them to tell us to get off. When it finally told us to get off,we got off and it took us 5 more minutes to get our stuff so we got off at 12:01 a.m When we finally got off, we went to a car rental shop which took us about an hour to get to because we had to walk and we took a lot of breaks. When we finally got to the car rental store at 1:01 a.m. we looked around for about 15 minutes until we found a good cheap car, it was called the Hyundai accent and it cost $152.00 per day, which made a total of $608.00. So when we got it, we drove to our hotel,
the Westin New York New York deluxe guest room, which cost $229.67 per day, which makes a total of $918.68. When we got in and put our bags in we went to sleep. Colton woke up first at 7:30 a.m and slammed Lawrence on the head with a pillow but Lawrence just kept snoring. Then he hit me on the head and I screamed and got about 10 calls telling me to be quiet (I was mad). Then, Colton was about hit Joseph but he got scared and thought that Joseph would give him the "stare" so Colton hit himself with the pillow instead. At 8:45 a.m Joseph woke up and we all got ready for our first day in New York City! First we went to a restaurant called
City Hall for breakfast. We all got buttermilk pancakes for $8.00 each, which made a total of $32.00. Colton, for some strange reason asked the manager if he sold anything with meat made from cows (by the way you should know that Colton really likes cows). The manager said yes, and Colton was about to hit the manager but Joseph, Lawrence, and I grabbed him, but the manager called security and we got kicked out. But the good news is that Lawrence snuck the food out with him, so everyone went back to the hotel and ate some but I told them, "Eat it without me, I'll catch up with you." So I went to a store and bought a Golana Swiss men's watch for $129.00, now I'll always know the time. Which reminds me, it was 10:37 a.m. Then, when I went back to the hotel, Colton told
me that Lawrence ate my pancake and everyone laughed but then I saw it and since every ones eyes were closed because they were laughing too hard, I got it and put so much maple syrup that it covered the entire pancake and I found some whip cream in Lawrence's backpack, so I put it on the pancake too. Now, you think I'm going to eat it, right? WRONG! Just then, I said, "Hey, Colton," Colton said, "Ya," and looked at me and I slammed the pancake in his face. He was about to hit me, but then he started laughing and fell of the bed onto his head. So we rested and watched television until 12:30 p.m. On 12:30 p.m we decided to do some fun stuff at the Westin New York hotel. We looked around for 30 minutes and then found something we liked, the Wii! It was in the
WestinWORKOUT Gym. We played , but there were only 2 games on it, wii fit and wii sports, we decided to play wii sports and we versed each other 7 times. Most of the time, Lawrence was trying to look for a way to cheat, but Joseph was watching him the whole time. When we finally finished our 35 minute game, here were the results, I won 2 matches, Colton won 3 matches, Joseph won 2 matches, and Lawrence didn't win any matches. After that, I checked my watch and it said that it was 1:35 p.m. Now, we were ready to eat brunch, it took us about 15 minutes to get to the restaurant. We ate at a place called
Bubby's. I got chicken fried chicken for $15.95, Colton got the Macaroni and cheese for $10.95, Joseph got the barbecue half chicken for $13.95, and Lawrnece got the New York strip steak for $24.95, which made a total of $65.80 was staring at Lawrence the whole time getting madder from every bite that Lawrence took out of his steak because he knew a cow had to die just for that steak. Then, when Lawrence was one bite away from finishing his steak, Colton went psycho and took the steak from Lawrence's hand and put it in a napkin, then started attacking Lawrence, all the customers left except us. But, we were kicked out after Colton gave Lawrence an arm burn, and the worst part is, we're not even allowed to eat there anymore. So we went back to the hotel and I checked my watch, it said that it was 3:42 a.m and that didn't make sense because we got in the restaurant at 1:50 p.m, and then I remembered that Colton hit my watch when I was trying to break the fight, so I looked at a clock and winded the watch to the right time, 3:15 p.m. Then for lunch we went to a restaurant called
Esca where Colton was determined to not get them kicked out again. It was alright until Lawrence tried to order a hamburger but luckily they did not serve that monstrosity. So Lawrence had to get the Spaghetti for $30.00 but it turned out to be huge so for thirty dollars it was worth it. Joseph and Colton got spaghetti Neri for $23.00 each, and I ordered the linguine for $24.00, our total came out to be a total of $100.00. Everyone ate peacefully and Colton didn't get us kicked out. I also thought that this time, when we ate it would be peaceful the whole time until the fire alarm for the restaurant started making a loud noise. Everyone was screaming except for Colton, who stared at the alarm and said, "Pretty light." That's when we all had to get out, but at least everyone ate enough so they could survive until dinner. When we were outside because we got out of the restaurant, I looked at my watch and it said that the time was 4:00 p.m. So, then we were pretty bored so we went back to the hotel and watched some television. Then, at about 5:00 p.m I got a pillow and snuck up behind Colton and hit him with the pillow and he fell off the bed! I was laughing so hard, but when I wasn't looking Colton tried to hit me with a pillow but missed and accidentally hit Lawrence. Lawrence got mad and tried to hit Colton but missed and hit me, and then we all were pillow fighting each other. Then at about 5:30 p.m Joseph gave us the stare, and we all looked at him and fell off the bed on
each other's heads, and then everything went black (I don't know if we were knocked out or if we fainted). When we woke up I checked my watch and it was broken, but I looked outside and it was night, so we went to go get dinner. But, when we got down to the lobby, there was a wall clock and it said 9:00 p.m. We drove around for thirty minutes but didn't find any dinner restaurants we liked, but I did go back to that store where I bought my watch and bought a new one for $129.00, which reminds me, it was 9:30 p.m when we got back to the hotel. But then, when we went back to the hotel, I saw a sign for restaurants inside the Westin New York and we decided to go to one called
Shula's steak house. But of course, Colton refused to go to a place, where he would watch cows get eaten (I mean, it was a steak house). So we told him to order something that's not steak and have it to go, and he agreed with it! So, when we got there it was 9:45 p.m. I ordered Certified Angus Steak Tartare for $15.95, Joseph and Colton ordered the Colossal Shrimp Cocktail for $14.95 each, and Lawrence ordered the 16 oz Herb Crusted Chicken Breast for $23.95, which made a total of $69.80. So, since it was to go, we took it back to our hotel room and ate it. Everyone enjoyed their food except for Colton because he thought his shrimp was oddly shaped (but Joseph didn't notice anything about it). So, Colton refused to eat it but I said, "Fine I'll have to resort to my most fierce method." So I took Colton's blanky and threatened to rip it. So, Colton ate the shrimp fast and ate twice as much as Joseph. Joseph didn't mind though. So, he went and took the blanky from my hand as soon as he was done eating. Then, we all went to sleep and had a peaceful night (except for Colton who woke up at 3:00 a.m to throw up because he ate too much shrimp). So, since Colton didn't go to sleep after 3:00 a.m, he was technically the first one to wake up. But, Colton was tired and didn't do anything until 7:30 a.m when he went under the bed and started kicking to annoy Joseph, Lawrence, and I (and it worked because we all woke up). But, Lawrence thought it was a phantom and ran into the bathroom to hide. But luckily, I stayed there because I knew whatever was under the bed was going to get scared by Joseph's stare. Then, the thing that was under the bed got up and screamed but it screamed because it was scared of Joseph's stare. Then, I found out that the thing that was under the bed was Colton. I got mad and was about to hit Colton but I remembered that he made Lawrence hide in the bathroom, so I said, "Thank you," and he said, "Okay?" So, every 4 or 5 minutes I would go in front of the restroom door and say something scary so Lawrence will stay in the bathroom. But at 9:00 a.m I told Lawrence to get out so we could start our second day in New York City!
First, we went to get breakfast at
Kitchenette, which we arrived in at 9:15 a.m and realized was pretty much a girly restaurant. There, I got plain pancakes for $8.25, Joseph got the homemade brioche french toast for $9.50, Colton got the heartland granola for $9.00, and Lawrence got the Kitchenette special for $7.00, which made a total of $33.75. I couldn't believe it but we ate peacefully the whole time until the last 5 minutes when Lawrence was in the middle of eating and then thought of this morning and thought of what a real phantom would look like and he threw up. We got kicked out but not permanently. Then, I checked my watch and it said that the time was 10:15 a.m. So, then we went to see the
Statue of Liberty. We bought Monument access tickets that let us go inside a museum and inside the statue of liberty that cost $12.00 each, which makes a total of $48.00. Now, that was a lot of money just for a monument and a long time wasted because of the line, but it was worth it! We got to see so many cool things and go inside the statue of liberty, but we kept getting squished by all the other visitors and the tour guide kept saying boring historical stuff. When we were done it was 11:45 a.m. So we decided to go eat brunch at
Sarabeth's. There, we all got the big bad wolf that cost $8.25 each, which made a total of $33.00. There, I didn't even think it would be peaceful since the beginning because just the name of the food "big bad wolf" would be enough to get somebody in our group kind of mad but it turned out to be hot porridge with wheat berries, fresh cream, butter and brown sugar. So Colton got pretty mad because he thought they were killing animals to make that food. So, he almost got us kicked out again, but I threatened to spill his food on his blanky and Colton doesn't know how to wash food off of stuff so he just ate one bite and then went to the restroom to throw the rest away. So, when we were done it was 12:30 p.m. Then, we were bored so went back to the hotel and watched television until 2:45 p.m. When it was 2:45 p.m we drove to the
AMC empire 25 theatre, which took us 15 minutes to drive to. We decided to watch race to witch mountain which started at 3:10 p.m. The tickets cost $12.50 per person, but you would also have to pay service charge for each person which was $1.00 a person, so actually it cost $13.50 per person, which made a total of $54.00. Colton didn't really like it but everybody else did! It was also like payback because Colton forced us to watch the Hannah Montana Movie that I hated, so now I made Colton watch something he doesn't like (but honestly I thought he'd like it). It was 1 hour and 39 minutes long, so when we were done watching it, it was 4:49 p.m, so we decided to get lunch at
Manganaro's Heroboy. There, I got a grilled chicken sandwich for $8.50, Joseph got spaghetti for $8.00, Colton got the chicken cutlet (Italian style) for $8.00, and Lawrence got the roast turkey for $10.00, which made a total of $42.50. I was amazed from how good the food tasted compared to all the other restaurants we've went to in New York City. Also, I was glad to see that Colton wasn't going to get us kicked out this time because he was lost in his chicken cutlet. But, when I finally had good food, and Colton wasn't bothering me, and I thought everything was going to be okay, Lawrence ruins everything. He tries to bug Colton by flicking his ear, and I thought Colton didn't feel it because he didn't do anything the first 30 times Lawrence did it, but then he got mad and almost slammed his food in Lawrence's face, but then remembered how good is food tasted, so instead he slammed Lawrence's food in Lawrence's face! Everyone was laughing, but when I thought we were going to get kicked out, a person that worked in the restaurant came and just gave as a warning! I was so relieved. Then, when we were all done, it was 6:00 p.m. So, we went to eat dinner at
10th avenue pizza. There, Colton and I got spaghetti for $5.25 each, Joseph got the chicken cutlet parmiginana for $6.50, and Lawrence got the Broccoli for $7.00, which made a total of $24.00. This was the first restaurant where we ate peacefully and nothing happened. But, when we left that's when stuff went wrong. First, Colton started throwing up from how much food he ate. Then, an old lady thought we were on her yard, but she didn't get mad. But, since she thought Colton was throwing up on her yard she got mad and started hitting Colton on the head with a walking stick. Then, Colton started to hit back but she hit him back and they started fighting, but Colton never really knew who he was fighting! So, when he realized that it was an old lady hitting him on the head with a stick, he said, "Can I help you cross the street," and she said yes, so he walked her and then pushes her and runs away. So we ran away with him, and I checked my watch and it said it was 7:30 p.m. So, when we were done running, we didn't know where we were, so we looked around and we saw we were at a Broadway theater called the
Minskoff theater, so we decided to watch Shrek the musical witch started at 8:00 p.m and right now it was 7:40 p.m. So, we bought tickets for $55.00 per person, (because we sat in row Q-R) which made a total of $165.00. But Colton thought the ogre was scary though, so he watched the Lion King, which also started at 8:00 p.m (but it wasn't the actually movie, it was a musical). The tickets cost $81.00 per person, and since Colton was the only person that was watching it it made a total of $81.00, so with the price of Shrek the musical and the Lion King, we spent $246.00. We've spent a total of $2769.54 on this trip so far. Joseph, Lawrence, and I liked Shrek the musical, but the song was just deck the halls, except they said Shrek the halls. But, Colton liked the Lion King and thought it was a healthy experience (but I don't get why he thought it was healthy). When the show was done, I checked my watch and it said that the time was 8:30 p.m. We were bored so we decided to go back to the hotel and get some shut eye. I was the first to wake up, I woke up at 7:00 a.m. I poked Colton so he would wake up but I made sure that he couldn't tell that I was there, and I got up and screamed (which really scared him). He was crying and he hid under the bed, but he still didn't know that it was me, so I was planning to take stuff from Colton's backpack but instead I found a skeleton hand, and reached it under the bed to scare Colton. He got scared but took the skeleton hand and broke it, then found out it was me because he found my hand, and then everything went black. But when I got up, everyone was awake, so I checked my watch and it said the time was 9:30 a.m, so we decided to get breakfast and start our third day in New York City!
First, we got breakfast at
Norma's. I got the NYPD special for $11.00, Joseph got the buttery buttermilk pancakes for $5.00, Colton got the krispy kreme for $6.00, and Lawrence got the crunchy french toast for $14.00, which made a total of $36.00. Joseph, Lawrence, and I ate peacefully, but Colton kept getting mad because crispy creme is supposed to be spelled with a c at the beginning but they spelled it with a k at the beginning. We kept telling him they did that for no reason, but he kept thinking they were dumb and spelled it wrong. So, he only ate one bite of his krispy kreme and gave the rest to Lawrence. Colton was smiling though, but I don't know why (in fact, now that I think of it, he smiles in every restaurant we go to). Anyway, when we were done, it was 10:15 a.m, so we decided to go to the
Central park zoo. The tickets cost $10.00 per person, so that made a total of $40.00. When we were there, we decided to go to the Polar circle, and the first place in the polar circle we went to was the penguin feeding and presentation, which started at 10:30 a.m (which I was relieved about because we arrived at the penguin feedings 10:28 a.m. We watched people who worked at the zoo feed the penguins fish, and we got to see the penguin dive everywhere to ge the fish. Joseph, Lawrence, and I were bored, but Colton thought it was cultural experience. So, after the penguin feeding and presentation, we went to see polar bears. But, this was different than just watching polar bears play around. In this, we get to see the polar bears from three different levels: ground level, above the polar bears, and underwater. Regular ground level was fine and nothing really happened. But, when we went underwater, Colton was screaming because he thought we were going to drown, but he kept looking through the windows and kept screaming until our tour guide told him to stop, so he did. But he was still scared so I kept telling him stuff to calm him down, and then it started working. But, Lawrence started saying stuff to get Colton scared again (and it worked). So, obviously I just let him keep getting scared (but I wasn't the only one annoyed by Colton, Colton was hiding behind Joseph and holding his legs). So then, when we went above the polar bears, Colton, Lawrence, and I were scared because we were afraid of heights, but only Colton screamed, and again the tour guide told him to be quiet. We all kept hiding behind Joseph, which really annoyed him, so since Joseph was the only one that wasn't afraid of heights, he kept threatning to push us off and let the polar bears eat us so we wouldn't annoy him. When it was all over, Colton, Lawrence, and I were terrified! Joseph was laughing though. So then we went to see some animals. First, we saw reptiles and Colton got really scared! He thought the snakes and alligators were after his shirt because it was all red, so he thought that they thought it was blood and he also thought they loved eating blood, so he ran away and took us with him as fast as he could. Next, we went to see the birds. Colton liked them at the beginning, but then saw their sharp claws and did the same thing as before. He kept doing that for every animal we saw, but he also kept asking when we could see the cows. We kept telling him the cows weren't at the zoo, but that just made him bug as even more, so we decided to tell him that we would see them last, so he would stop annoying us. So, after every animal we saw, (which Colton got scared of) I checked my watch and it said that the time was 1:30 p.m, and the zoo doesn't close until 5:00 p.m. So, since it was 1:30 p.m, we decided to go to the sea lion feeding and presentation, which took us 15 minutes to arrive to. When were there, we had to wait 15 more minutes because it started at 2:00 p.m. When it finally started, we realized that it was the same thing as the penguin feeding, except it was sea lions. So, when it was done, the time was 2:30 p.m. So, we decided to leave, but Colton asked us about seeing the cows and we said that if he closes his eyes we'll bring him to them. So he closed his eyes and we just put him in the car and left. So we decided to go get lunch at
Mee Noodle Shop, which we got to at 2:55 p.m. I had the small chicken noodle soup for $2.00, Joseph had the small lo mein for $4.50, Colton had the pan fried noodles with vegetables for $7.00, and Lawrence had the noodle soup with chicken $4.90, which made a total of $18.40. We got chopsticks and Colton loved the chopsticks so much, that he named it choppy. But, choppy "accidently" flew out of Colton's hand and hit Lawrence on the head. Lawrence got mad and didn't know who did it, so he ignored it like a proper gentlemen. But then, Colton took my chopsticks and threw it at Lawrence again. Lawrence got even madder and noticed that my chopsticks were gone and he attacked me instead of Colton. Then, I said, "Colton did it." Then, Lawrence believed me and started atta
cking Colton. Then, the manager kicked Lawrence and Colton out because Joseph and I said they weren't with us, and Colton and Lawrence finished their fight outside while Joseph and I ate the rest of our food in peace. When we were done, it was 4:00 p.m. So, we decided to go back to the hotel and play Monopoly (but we don't have to pay for it, because I brought it). Lawrence won the first round, Joseph won the next round, Colton won the last round, and I didn't win
any. Then, when we were done it was 6:00 p.m, so we went to get dinner at
Brooklyn Diner. I got onion rings for $6.50, Joseph got the Roast chicken club for $16.00, Colton got the new england shrimp roll for $18.00, and Lawrence got the chinese chicken salad for $18.50, which made a total of $59.00. Colton gets mad because he thought since he got a shrimp roll that the shrimp would be rolled up. So, I kept telling him that it didn't matter, but he insisted that we should sew them. But, then I threatened to rip Colton's blanky, and he ate all his shrimp, and then he went to the restrom to throw up. We waited 15 minutes for him to come back, then he finally came back, and we decided to leave. It was 6:45 p.m, so we decided to the
AMC Empire 25 theatre again, which we arrived in at 6:55 p.m. But, this time we watched Star Trek. But, the movie started at 7:30 p.m, so we bought the tickets, which were $12.50 per person, plus a service charge which was $1.00 per person, which made a total of $54.00. So far we've spent $2,976.92 on this trip so far. We watched it and everyone liked it except for Colton because he thought that all the fighting in it was real, and that people were dying just for a movie, so he left in the middle of it, and waited for us outside. It was awesome, especially the action parts. So, since the movie was 2 hours and 6 minutes long, we got out at 9:36 p.m. When we got outside, we found out that Colton was sleeping on a bench, and that kids were staring at him, so we grabbed him and we headed back to the hotel. So, by the time we got to the hotel and got into our room, it was 10:00 p.m, so we decided to watch some television and go to bed. The next morning, Lawrence was the first to wake up, he woke up at 7:15 a.m and he got a skeleton hand out of Colton's backpack and put it on my face. I woke up and was so scared that I grabbed the skeleton hand, and flipped it over and since Lawrecne was holding it tightly, he flipped with it, and I got so mad and was about to hit him but then I thought that that flip hurt enough. But, Colton was awake and saw the whole thing and didn't think that was enought, so he was hitting Lawrence really hard and was hitting him with a pillow as hard as he could. So, I would've stopped it but "I was too tired" and didn't feel like it, then "accidently" dropped another pillow so Lawrence could fight back. The fight went on for a while, and Joseph woke up and saw the fight and was also "too tired" to tell them to stop. But the wierd was that I think I saw Joseph smile, anyway at 9:00 a.m, I told them to stop, so we could start out last day in New York City!
First, we decided to get breakfast at
The Pink Teacup, which we got to at 9:30 a.m. There, I got an egg omlet for $2.75, Joseph got banana pancakes for $6.25, Colton got plain pancakes for $5.00, and Lawrence got fried chicken with corn fritter or apple fritters (but Lawrence chose apple fritters) for $10.00, which makes a total of $24.00. We all enjoyed our meals, but none of us could figure out why Lawrence had fried chicken for breakfast, so I asked him and he just looked at me, and then just finished eating. We all enjoyed our food, except for Lawrence because he ate fired chicken for breakfast, so he went to throw up. When he came back it was 10:30 a.m, so we decided to leave and go back to the hotel. We got back to the hotel at 11:00 a.m. We played a quick 30 minute game of Risk, but we played it 4 times. I won the first one, Joseph won the next two, Lawrence won the last one, and Colton didn't win anything. So, when we were done, it was 1:00 p.m, so we decided to go get brunch at
Little Giant, which we got to at 1:30 p.m. I got the breakfast burrito for $13.00, Joseph got the fisherman's breakfast for $15.00, Lawrence got the little giant burger for $14.00, and Colton got the baked french toast for $14.00, which made a total of $46.00. We all had a good time but Colton couldn't figure out why Lawrence's burger was called little giant burger because it was normal sized. He also couldn't figure out why name of the restaurant was little giant because that just doesn't makes sense, because if there's a little giant, than why is it called a giant? Another thing he didn't get was why they baked his french toast. There were more things he didn't get but I dont have time to tell you the other 486 things. But, overall we all had a good time. Excpet for Colton, his time there was terrible. Anyway, we were done with our food and it was 2:25 p.m. So, we decided to do something fun, but there wasn't anything fun to do, until Joseph and Lawrence found the
Asia Society and Museum, that they saw at 2:40 p.m. They begged me and Colton to go, then Colton said, only if you give me $10, so Joseph gave him $10 , but it was really 10 fake dollars that Joseph brought from home. So we went inside the Asia Society and Art Museum and it looked awesome! The admission was $10 per person, so that made $40 total. We got in side at 3:00 p.m, and we agreed that we'll stay there for 2 hours. The museum was awesome! But Colton didn't really like it that much, because he didn't see any paintings, and he thougth that all museums were art museums, so he was upset. But, Joseph, Lawrence, and I had a lot of fun! We saw so much historical things, but we were exhausted because it was an 8 floor museum. It had been 1 hour and 15 minutes, so far, so we started to go back down the stairs (which we hated). But, then when we were about to go to the sixth floor, Joseph made me do something I hated. He knew that I was afraid of heights, so he told me to come look through a window, so I looked threw it and got so scared that I fell on the ground (and it hurt). So, then we went down the 8 floors and by then it was 2 hours and 30 minutes because we had to keep stopping because Lawrence to keep looking at stuff. So, we left and the time was 5:30 p.m, so we decided to go eat dinner at
Antique Cafe. I had the steak frites for $24.00, Colton and Joseph had free range chicken for $18.00 each, Lawrence had the shrimp fettuccine for $20.00, and we all had a house salad for $8.00 each, which makes a total of $112.00. Colton was happy that he picked something that Joseph picked because he thought that food that Joseph ate made him smarter, so he ate the whole thing really fast and didn't even throw up this time! He didn't even look at me though, and I'm pretty sure it was because I was eating steak. Joseph took the longest to finish his for some reason, and Lawrence was sad because he wanted to go back to that museum, so only ate half of his food and threw the rest away. My steak tasted great, and I didn't really care that Colton wasn't looking at me, because that way he wouldn't annoy me. When we were done, it was 7:00 p.m, so we went back to the hotel and checked out, then we went to the airport to go to St Louis, Missouri! The total cost of this trip was $3,198.92.
Colton was released. The flight there costs $59.00 per person so the total was of course $236.00. After that we went strait to a car renting place called enterprise where we rented a minivan that cost $69.00 per day, which makes a total of $276.00. Then we had a fight to see who would drive the hot rod since we are staying there for four days so only a odd number of people would drive those days. Ali drove like a madman and almost got us a ticket for speeding. Finlay after a terrorizing drive to our hotel we actually got to relax. After we checked in at the Hyatt regency phoenix hotel for 4 nights it was $398.00 for the first 2 nights and the other two nights for $358.00 it came out to be the price of $756.00. We decided to have a mass pillow fight. This is how the pillow fight worked you see Ali tried to hit Colton upside the head but Colton fell over to get his blanket so Ali tripped over him and hit Lawrence so he did a body-slam on Ali and that was a total KO. since Joseph had just been hanging around waiting to strike. He did the stare and told us to watch the Television for one hour so when we were finished watching at 8:30 so we decided to go eat at a place called Julio's Mexican restaurant. There Joseph got the nacho supreme for $11.50 and Lawrence got the cheese burger for $8.50, Ali got the albondigas soup for $6.00 and finally Colton got the pescado Veracruz for $14.00. That came out to be a total of Things went horrible right when Lawrence tried to eat the cheese burger. Colton took the cheese burger away and thew it in the trash. Lawrence got really mad and gave Colton a handshake so Colton screamed like a girl and we almost got kicked out of that restaurant. A handshake in lawrences style is torture because he squeezes so hard, it hurts. So since it was the first time in Arizona we decided we should treat ourselves with desert, Lawrence got the original fried ice cream for $5.50, Joseph got the double chocolate fudge explosion for $6.00, and Colton got the sopapillas for $4.00, and Ali got the chocolate mini chimi for $6.00 it came out to be $61.50. When the Waiter gave us our desserts, Colton threw a fit because his sopapillas were not beautiful flowers and they the food into his face so we had to leave. Then it was 10:30 so we had to Leave and hit the hay, but right when we got there we decided to have a cup of coffee from the food bar and that totally hyped us up and we had to stay up because we could not go to sleep. We had one thing to do GO SWIMMING!!!!! We put on the swimming trunks provided by Lawrence and zipped int the pool. We decided to climb onto each others backs and try to balance. That was a big mistake because when Lawrence started to stand on people because they would start to drowned so we quit because he weighed to much. When we went back to the hotel room to watch Dora the explorer but we decided to play the quiet game, well that was fun until Ali farted and we got KO and that was about 12:30. About 3:00 Colton woke up because he could not find his blanky so he checked the bathroom and it was in there then Colton got a idea he got the hotel's soap and spread it on lawrences face then went back to sleep. The next morning we got up to go get breakfast like normal but first we had to decide where. We all wanted different things but Joseph showed us the stare and we had to go to his restaurant called Matt's BIG breakfast. Just in case you were wondering the soap dried onto Lawrences mouth and he had a pink moustache but we did not tell him. So when the waiter came he started laughing and that's when he finally figured out that he had a pink moustache. Well for some reason he decided to blame Colton, who actually did it.This is what he did. Lawrence got the cheese omelet for $6.50 Joseph got the griddlecakes for $6.00 Ali got the tossed cob for $7.50, and Colton got frosted flakes for $4.00 for and at this place the water was NOT free so we had to pay $1.00 each for $4.00 it came out to $28.00. Then we just ate are breakfast except for Lawrence who just nibbled on his and drank his water. So when the waiter came he asked for a take home box well the waiter brought him one along with the bill. After we paid then we left at 10:02 to do something else. Ali suggested we play golf, but Lawrence said we should go swimming so we went to go golfing. We went to a golfing place called octillo golf resort for $60.00 per person,that's a total of $240.00 just to golf. Plus it wasn't even in Phoenix so we drove down to Chandler, Arizona and got there at 10:35 but our game got started at 11:24. When we started playing our nine-hole tournament other people got to join in and well, as they say the more the merrier. So when Colton got up there to swing his golf club he missed and got and hit himself in the face with a golf club. Then the pros stepped up they all got hole in ones with there awesomeness. Then Joseph just stared at the ball with his stare and told it to get a hole in one of course the ball did not do that so Joseph kicked it and it fell in the lake. Then Ali got up to the ball and hit it and it fell into the lake so he tried to go get it and slipped on the muddy banks and almost drowned 
until the amazing form of Colton rescues him and when Ali asked why he saved me he said he had "brotherly love." So Ali got totally freaked out and ran to the resorts bathroom to hide. So it was time to see who one the tournament out of us four well Lawrence came in first, Ali came in second, Colton came in third, and Joseph got dead last out of everybody who played. Just in case you were wondering we have spent a total of $1,591.52 out of $3,500.00 for our trip. Well it was getting late at 12:46 PM so we were going to go to a chinese restaurant called the Autumn court where we got to go to a court in Autumn. There Lawrence got the egg foo young with shrimp for $8.95, Colton got the chowmein chicken with rice for $6.95 Joseph got the kung pow shrimp and chicken for $8.95, and Ali got the pork lomein for $6.95 for a total of $31.80. We pretty much did nothing there except eat. So we wanted something to. We decided to go to the hotel again to watch the TV And play the game of ultimate global domination RISK but reenact the battle scenes. It was 1:32 at this point. well Ali surrendered his troops to Joseph right away because of his stare. Then Colton destroyed Lawrences troops with his deadly fart and now it was the ultimate face down the smart one and the dumb one in a climatic clash of forces to capture the entire world. So can you guess who one? Well that a no-brainer Colton won..... no he lost totally. So We had to do something so we got on the Internet to find out what to do since we got board we hoped to find an amusement park to go to and we did. We found a medieval place called castles and coasters where you ride a lot of cool rides until you upchuck your food. First we had to pay admission but there was none but we had to pay for each ride separately. We did get a good value but it was $20.00 per person and it came out to be $80.00 to ride 4 rides and play mini golf 18 holes where we battle through stages with scary medieval stuff then rescue a princess from a dragon by getting the ball in the dragons mouth; it was fun. Colton went exploring in the many fabulous settings but he got lost in the town square by wandering around the houses so we had to go find him. He was hiding in the dragons mouth and since the mouth opens at intervals. so next we went to the sky diver-our scream machine where you are taken up to a chilling 120 feet and dropped without warning. We regretted ever going on that ride because Colton screamed like a girl and nearly got our eardrums busted out. next we went to a real thrill-ride called the carousel where soothing music lulls you to a peaceful slumber while you beautiful animal rides up and down in a magical swaying motion it was very relaxing. So Colton was asleep so we could do two more awesome rides first came the desert storm where you would ride a thrilling roller coaster where power carries you upward and drops you into a series of loops, vortexes, and twists and the climax, the death defying drop of doom. Then when they came off of the ride Colton was crying on the side walk because he did not know where we were. So we had to do something together. We rode the splashdown where at first it is a soothing water ride until you take an unexpected detour and travel through a Polynesian village then stampede a herd of calm elephants after that crash down roaring waterfalls for the adventure of a lifetime. well castles and coasters was over but we still have funn stuff to do here. Well when we looked at the watch we saw that it was 3:07 and almost four so we could do something else before we ate dinner. So we decided to go see a movie at AMC Arizona center 24 when we got there we had to get our tickets for the 3:20 showtime of earth but the line was huge we got the last four tickets of earth and by then it was 3:19 so we were like, forget the food and go to the movie. The tickets cost $9.75 per person so we spent at total of $39.00. Colton thought the movie was magical. It was about Earth and the animals on it and the exotic places to go. Ali thought it was a waste of money. The movie was ninety minuets long so now it was 4:50, and we needed refreshments so we drove around looking for a restaurant to eat at Finaly at 5:13 we found a good place called Mi amigos Mexican grill where we have good food Lawrence orderd the Shrimp fajita for $16.25 Colton got the grilled chicken taco for $10.75, Joseph chose the enchilada with the Chile con carne for $10.95, and Ali got the soup and dinner salad for $7.50 and it came out to be $45.45. But everything went wrong when Ali tried to talk in Spanish he tried to say " I want a dinner soup and salad", But for some reason it came out like"You are so fat" I don't know why, but I think he was talking to Lawrence. So we got kicked out of that one and by then it was 6:06 So we headed back to the hyatt hotel To hit the hay. Oh and if you were wondering what happened to the eggs Lawrence saved to get a payback on Colton Well this is what he did that night. He "borrowed" Ali's ipod touch and set the alarm for 3:00 in the morning and slept with the earphones in his ear So only he heard the alarm go off. He got the eggs from his backpack [by the way Colton is allergic to eggs] So he put them into Colton's mouth and went back to sleep. In the morning we were awoken by a screaming Ali who had tried to wake Colton up but he was covers with itchy spots called hives but Colton had already woken up so Ali thought he was a deformed zombie. Colton was just miserable and itchy. Lawrence felt sorry for Colton so he apologised but Colton got angry and hit Lawrence in the face. It all stoped when a room cleaner walked in and separated them. We did not want to be in the room while the person was cleaning so we had to go to breakfast. We got into the car at 9:21 and set off in search of a restaurant. We found a little restaurants called copper star coffee, There we got coffee Well first Colton got the veggie sandwich for $4.50, Joseph got the espresso coffee for $1.75 and the breakfast bagel for $3.75 for his total of $5.50, Ali got the cappaccino for $3.25 and the deviled egg salad sandwich for $5.00 for another total of $8.25, and Lawrence got the Cesar salad for $4.50 and the latte for $3.25 that makes his total $7.75 and the grand total was $25.95 and by the time we left it would be 10:00. We searched the Internet for a place to go and found a really cool one called westworld xtreme pursuit paintball We drove from the restaurant to the paintball place and got there at 10:25 When we got there the first thing we did was pay for our stuff ( for entertainment because re rented it) it was $5.00 per person so that was a total of $20.00, but we also had to pay for admission, which was $20.00 per person, so the total with admission and the equipment rental was $100.00. When we went into the arena we were ready for combat except for Colton.There was a big buzzer and it had started so we decided to be on a team. We walked around to find someone to shoot. Joseph said he needed to use the restroom and walked away then he jumped out and scared Colton and shot him. Then someone else jumped out and started to shoot us and we shot back but we all fell except for Lawrence who was to fat for the bullets to do any damage so he won the game when we were out of ammo and we were black and blue we decided to take a rest. We went back to the hotel to take a nap at 12:12 and woke up at 1:13. We were starving so we had to go to eat lunch we drove around for five minuets and Finlay we found this place called oregano's pizza bistro where we got pizza Colton got the kick butt garlic bread for $4.89, Ali got the bistro calamari for $6.89, Lawrence got the Lawrence's stuffed shrooms for $7.99, and Joseph got the Alfredo the dark for $8.99. The total on the bill came out to be $28.76. Well Ali was being silly with his squid and let them swim around in his bowl and sang about farting rainbows and lovable cuddly monsters that ate your face off. That was very weird. At 2:00 we went to the enchanted island where we will be enchanted. We got there at 2:09 and went to get our tickets for rides and food we all got the all day pass for $8.00 per person and that came out to be $32.00 so that we could go all day. There first we did the Red baron where you get to be an ace pilot and fly around. It cost two tickets. After that we went to go see the phoenix skyline on the parachute tower. Then we went to go to the games of skill where we shot hoops for $2.00 each we did that four times so that will be $32.00. then we went to the food court for a snack. We got the ice cream and hot dogs it all went fine until Colton smashed his waffle cone against Lawrence's face then he got angry and threw his hot dog then it turned into a hot dog/ice cream fight. after that weird incident. At last we got board and we went back to the rides. Then Colton spotted something truly magical, the C.P. Huntington train. Of course we ran to it a fast as possible and Ali got there first, Colton got there second then Joseph was third, and Lawrence turned out to be dead last. So first we had to pay the conductor two tickets and then we were on our way. We road around the whole Park and got to see enchanted plants on the ride. We road that thing like crazy until we had only one more tickets. well nothing cost one ticket so sadly we had to leave. By the time we left the place it was 4:30 so we had one more thing to do so we decided to go to the phoenix art museum and look at art. We drove for five minuets and got there at 4:35. When we walked up to pay they said that it was $10.00. Then Colton piped up and said "Will you take an IOU?". Then Joseph apologized and said that Colton was in the special needs group. So because it was $10.00 we paid a total of $40.00 for the Phoenix art museum. We went in and got strait to the statues. We saw cool pictures of people getting there heads chopped of and children playing in the snow. After that we went to go see medievalisam fashion romance of the middle ages. which was also in the art musem.We got to see knights armor and big headdresses and mail armor. Then Colton spotted a scary looking sword with jagged edges so he got scared an ran away. Lawrence Joseph, and Ali were fascinated about the cool looking sword. Lawrence tried to take it out of its case but a security guard told him not to so he had to leave the place. Plus it was getting late it was 6:00 and we were starved. We went out to our car but a old lady stopped us and said that she was in desperate need of money. Colton stepped up and tried to give her our only hundred dollar bill but Ali quickly stepped up and said we could not give a random old helplass lady money so she turned around and whacked him in the face with her purse. We drove around until we found a place called avanti italian restaurant. Joseph got the penne al forno for $18.50, Lawrence got the mozzerella caprese for $11.00, Colton got the spaghetti for $18.50, and finally Ali got the veal speccialiti for $25.00. Our bill came out to be $73.00. This time Joseph tried to speak Italian and say "This food is good", instead it came out like "your face is ugly." so we had to leave. We needed our sleep so we went back to the hotel. The sleepiness did not last for long when we saw the swimming pool. We immediately jumped in to the warm pool and tried to drown each other but that got boring. Then we decided to have a dream contest and see who had the weirdest dream. The next morning we told each other about our dreams. Joseph had a true nightmare where he had got a 99.99 on his final exam, Lawrences was weird too he was being chased by an peanut-butter jelly fish singing the Dora the Explorer song, then Ali's was where he was told by the head Unicorn that they live in Alaska not Canada, pegisi live there. Finally Colton's was where a Evil butterfly farted on A cute princess and it stunk up her hairstyle so she tried to kill it but it was in leage with lord Imsougly and the power of cuteness could not harm it but Colton came along and chopped the monsters head off using the eternal power of friendship. And colton and the Princess lived hapilly ever after and a day. so obviously Colton had won the game but we had to eat a hjealthy meal before we set off to our little adventure. We decided to go to a place called Seamus McCaffrey's Irish reastaurant. We got there at 9:06 to eat breakfast. There we all orderd the chicken boxty for $8.33 so it came out to be $33.32. There Colton thought he had the luck of the Irish so he tried to see if a leprechon would play a trick on him and he would outwitt the leprechon. He did not outwitt the clever thing and he left with a bunch of bruises becauso of all the triping and falling that had happend it turned out that the leprechon was Ali, Joseph, and Lawrence.And our next destination,the Grand Canyon it was almost a four hour drive to the canyon and it got board after we ran out of movies to watch you see Lawrence had brought a portable DVD player and a Lord Of The Rings movie scince that was three hours long but that was the only thing we had so we fell asleep until a random person decided to honk his horn as loud as they could so we were back on the road. When we got to the national park at 1:25. When we got there we had to pay the fee of $12.00 per person so that came out to be $68.00. We went to go do the north canyon tour of the park for $149.00 per person so because there are four of us it was a total of $596.00. We got to see a thirty minuet tour of the north side on a flying helicopter. We got to see the deep parts of the canyon. Colton tried to get out of the copter while it was in midair because he is afraid of flying objects so he had to be reastained by the co-pilot. Ali thought it was very thrilling. Then we had one thing to do Go on a hike! We set off with water bottles and hiking sticks we walked for at least a few miles then we got board of hiking and looking at pretty scenery we decided to play Star Wars with our sticks. That was not a good idea because jumping around on the edge of a cliff is not the best thing. We started to walk back but Colton lost his grip and fell unfourtunantly he grabbed on to an overhanging branch and held on tight. So Lawrence, Ali, and Joseph had to pull a crying Colton up from the canyon. Of course Colton wanted to go home so well its anoying with a crying baby so we had no choice but to. Well it was 4:00 and we just realized we had not had lunch so we sped back to Phoenix with no stops and got there 6:00 and went for a food place called Cafe Eden. There Ali orderd the Eden pancakes for $14.00, Joseph got the star spangle for $14.50, Colton got the mega french for 
$15.00, and Lawrence got the meditteranian breakfast for $13.00 and that would be the total of $56.50. Then we had one more thing to do before our last day in phenix. Go to the dessert botanicle garden!! We had also had the reservation set up it was $15.00.We drove there and got there at 7:30 and went to pay addmittion for $15.00 per adult so it came out to be $60.00. First we went to the chuhily: nature of glass exhibit. There we saw plants that looked like plants until you looked close enough and saw that they were all made of glass. It was very cool until Colton shatterd a evil looking plant and we were not allowed to be there anymore. so then we went to the spring butterfly exhibit where we saw cute butterflies riding on the wind. The addmission for non members was $3.00 per person so that cost us $12.00. But if we were a member we would get to get in for free! So we got to see butterflies up close; taking in nectar and landing on people. Well while we were at that place Colton tried to pluck a plant for the butterflies but he got into trouble. so we had to leave. Next we went to the ottosen entry garden. where we saw different dessert plants and where they were found. There were four different gardens, the basin garden, red canal garden, terrace garden, and the sonoran desert plant exhibit. First came the basin garden where we saw cacti that would grow in the south part of the desert. Then we went to the canal garden where different types of cacti grow against red stone walls and a canal with little waterfalls flowes through the different plants. Last we went to the tarrace garden where you climb up a small mountan and the plant life changes as you get closer to the top. at the top all looked over thae park untill we were distracted by Ali's stupidity. He had gotten a cactus thorn in his hand he had tried to punch a cactus because it looked too ugly so he got mad at it. So we had to drive him back to the hotel where we pulled the cactus thorn out and made Ali were a barny bandaid. By that time it 9:30 at night and we still had not eaten dinner. So we got back into the car and went to a place called tee pee Mexican food. Where they had great bathrooms. There we all got the chicken fajita for $10.50 so we spent a total of $42.00 there. Right after that at 11:30 we started to ride back to the hotel but a crazy driver almost ran us over then Colton screamed and that startled Lawrence who was driving and caused him to hit the street curb so it was pretty much a nightmare drive back to the hyatt regency. Right when we got in the room we were so tired that we forgot to get into our pajamas and just fell asleep on the floor. We woke up to hear Colton screaming because his arm had fallen asleep because he was sleeping on it. He had no felling in his arm and he could not move it. We told him that we would have to chop it of because it was dead, but that made him scream more than ever. So we decided to have the hotels contonental breakfast and see if Coltons arm would heal up before the zoo. And of course it did. so right now it is 9:00 and we should be heading to the PHX zoo. We got there at approxomatly 9:11 and went to get our passes to enter. The passes were $16.00 per person so for that we spent $64.00 to get in the zoo. We walked around looking at different animals and got to get goats to lick our hands. Colton started to cry when he found out that there were no cows to ride on. We got to see slithering snakes and vicous crocidiles that scared Colton because he thought that they would try to take his head off. We finaly got boared at 10:54 but then saw a sign that said bear bonanza. We found out that it started at 11:00 everyday so that was good because it was getting around that time. At the bear bonanza we got to explor the forest 0f Uco and see the andean bears. We also got to see a colectoin of skulls, claws and other items like teeth. We also got to find out how to help the bears and the threats that they faced. After that we were getting hungry so we left the zoo at 12:23 to go eat at a place called Durants. This was the last restaurant we would eat in before we had to leave Phoenix for good. So Ali orderd the durants cobb sallad for $15.50, Joseph got the grilled shrimp for $23.95, Lawrence ate the ceaser sallad for $9.25, and Colton bought the chinese chicken sallad for $14.50. So we paid a total of $63.20. Well the restaurant was good but we are going to miss it. Next we went back to the hotel to check out then dropped the car back off at the car dealer and hopped on our plane. BY!!!!!!! Enjoy our next great adventure as we journy to lake tahoe, nevada. See you later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way the total of this trip is $3,119.48.
